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Healthy moves: Valley man works his way up from orderly to hospital CEO
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Mahoning Valley Hospital in Boardman.
YOUNGSTOWN — Michael S. Senchak rose from milling machine operator and hospital orderly to hospital president and chief executive officer, and he accomplished it all without leaving the Mahoning Valley.
“I’m just a local guy who made a commitment to stay local, and did the right thing in the community,” said Senchak, former president and CEO of the Mahoning Valley Hospital.
Reared on Youngstown’s lower West Side, Senchak, a 1970 graduate of Ursuline High School, was working as a milling machine apprentice at Wean United when he was laid off in 1974.
Still looking for work 18 months later, he took a job in April 1976 as an orderly at St. Elizabeth Hospital, a move that changed his life but not his residence.
In 1999, he was named president and CEO of Mahoning Valley Hospital, which was just an idea at the time. He was given the task of starting the long-term, acute-care hospital .
He is quick to point out, however, that he had a lot of help along the way — and some good luck.
Read the full story Monday in The Vindicator and on Vindy.com